Laura Owens is not exactly a real-estate shark. New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl characterizes the artist as a soft-spoken, earnest feminist who makes playfully wistful paintings and works with children and campaigns for Democratic politicians. So when a group of activists burst into the VIP reception for her…

From the NYT review: "O'Keeffe wanted the power to include sexuality in her art's expressive range, without necessarily making it the subject. Stieglitz wanted the power to define her art purely in terms of feminine sexuality." [NYT]

OMG Christina Aguilera looks so pretty in these Hitchcock-inspired Stephen Webster ads! It's like, we finally see what Christina Aguilera has been going for all these years with this excessive bombshell crap — and it is good. The wonders of Photoshop, folks! [Sassybella]